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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1871
Page
6
A religious gathering recounts a quiet wedding in a parsonage, praising the restraint of a modest ceremony over lavish fanfare. It reflects on faith, virtue, and the church’s role in guiding couples toward steady spiritual life, opposing flirtations with sensational revivals and worldly luxuries.
The Prussian staff, led by Von Moltke, selects officers through a Berlin military academy. About 120 candidates enter annually with 40 succeeding, then with three years of study and field practice, followed by a rigorous academy process. Top twelve from the group are chosen, then 18 months to two years of further testing before promotion to captain and staff duty. The result is a highly trained, secretive corps.
A soldier with a drawn right leg due to rheumatism resists doctors but is persuaded by Dr. H to undergo cauterization from hip to heel. The patient protests yet is strapped to a table and burns are applied, he collapses and escapes, returning to duty cured of malingering. Also notes General Albert Sydney Johnson's grave near Austin with rebel authorities forbidding further honors.
A German wife named Chris Peter was found with her throat cut at a Belleville and Centreville Railroad farm house in St Clair County near East St Louis. A suspicious stranger seen near the depot is pursued by authorities. Reward offered up to 500 dollars.
The text traces rings from early use as ornaments to seals and insignia of status. It covers Greece and Rome, noting universal adoption in Asia, gender patterns, and the shift from iron to gold rings among senators, magistrates, equites, and emperors. It also notes property and crime affecting eligibility, the imperial seal role, and ancient gem engraving excellence.
The Cario Bulletin reports an invasion of caterpillars marching through Southern Illinois devouring leaves buds and other growth. Farmers tried remedies from coal oil soaked bindings to fires but finally a mixture of coal oil and warm water drenched on trees to kill the pests.
The Y M C A plans an international convention in Washington in May using the House of Representatives hall. By law the hall may be used for noncongressional purposes only with unanimous consent. A Democratic objection blocks consent, arguing resentment because most Christians oppose Democrats.
Thomas W Homewood, his wife, and thirteen children aged 16 to 10 months reach New York on the last Cunard steamer. He declares he brought 38000 in gold and bought a Delaware farm near Wilmington to settle. A Boston college president story recalls a prank where students replace the Bible with a dictionary, the clergyman prays long and dry, noting he found all needed words in the volume.
The Columbus Democrat reports a terse Wyocena village epitaph in Columbia county: Seventeen years a maiden, one year a wife, two months a mother, and that took her life. The line reflects a tragic short life captured on a grave marker.
An old negro applied for food at a Washington public building arguing rights under the Thirteenth Amendment. The department head questioned his basis, and the man replied he believed in constitutional provisions for colored folks and had not had a crumb yet.
The Insane Asylum at Lincoln Nebraska costing 120000 was burned last week. Forty inmates faced the blaze and two perished. Walls fell in a crash as the fire spread. Prisoners inside the State Prison exploited guard absence to escape. ten inmates fled.
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